Loss and recovery of e-mails in Outlook

Outlook stores all the e-mail data in a Personal Storage Folder, better known as the pst file. Outlook usually becomes inaccessible, when the pst file gets corrupted. Corruption of a pst file occurs basically due to two major reasons,

  • Corruption due to version upgrade- This usually occurs, when the user upgrades from an older version of Outlook, to a newer version.
  • Corruption due to an oversized pst file- This type of corruption occurs, when the pst file exceeds its size limit of 2GB, resulting in loss important e-mails.

Outlook does provide some recovery tools to recover deleted emails from Outlook. In the first case, the user can make use of the Inbox Repair Tool, but this tool cannot assure you recovery of all your lost e-mails. In the second case, the user can make use of the crop utility, to reduce the size of your pst file. You can make use of this utility, only as a last resort, as this software randomly deletes some data, and you have no idea of what you are losing.

Since both the recovery tools provided by Outlook cannot assure complete recovery of data, it is always better to go for a good Outlook pst recovery software. REMO Recover Outlook (pst), is a Read-Only software, that lets you recover deleted emails from Outlook, and lets you recover all your contacts with ease. Read the rest of this entry »

If Outlook Inbox doesn’t show up – Deal smartly to recover and restore emails

Microsoft Outlook being the most popularly used email has the greatest disadvantage that it is routinely targeted by viruses that attack the Internet. With regular virus attacks, the stability of your Outlook inbox is prone to high risk. Outlook Corruption due to virus attacks and several other reasons may make your Outlook inbox unusable. This will simultaneously lead to rendering all your emails inaccessible. In such a scenario, have an appropriate Outlook inbox repair tool installed on your computer to help you retrieve your lost emails.

Inbox failure is the result of Microsoft Outlook Corruption which can cause major data loss. Apart from virus attacks inbox failure can be many reasons like corruption inside the .pst file header, corruption caused due to 2 GB .pst file size limit, corruption caused due to compacting of .pst file and Microsoft Outlook incorrect exit or a system malfunction. Microsoft Outlook errors are quite common and can be very frustrating. Some of the most common errors occur during Outlook startup, because the personal folder files are checked and found to contain errors.

Don’t worry all your Inbox emails are not lost. The .pst file is currently not available for Outlook, because either it is located on an unavailable server or the file is corrupted. Outlook fails to open a corrupted personal folder. You can easily recover and restore the lost emails with the help of email recovery software. Disk Doctors Email Recovery Software is a comprehensive tool, exclusively designed to diagnose and repair a corrupted PST file. It safe to use and proves completely efficient to bring results, even when the Microsoft Inbox Repair Tool fails to fix.

The program supports Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. It scans the corrupt.pst file associated with your outlook inbox and recovers messages, folders, appointments, meeting requests, contacts, tasks, task requests, journals and notes in .pst files. All properties, such as subject, to, from, cc, bcc, date, etc., are also recovered. This powerful Outlook Mail Recovery tool works amazingly to make your lost mails accessible again.

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The basic functions of web and client based email

Would you like to learn how to recover Outlook email? It is far simpler than you might imagine. Before we start you will need to learn a little bit about how email is sent, received and stored. There are basically two types of email. Those are web based and client based. Web based email is usually free and is available from most every major web portal such as AOL, Yahoo, or Google. With this form of email you must log onto the portals email server and from that point compose, send and receive messages. This is fine for most personal use but it does allow those same Internet portals access to your private messages. Another problem with web-based email is that it is stored at the provider’s site and should they lose your letters they are difficult if not impossible to recover. Read the rest of this entry »

How Microsoft Outlook operates and sometimes fails

Client based email such as Microsoft Outlook sends and receives your messages by way of your Internet connection and software stored on your computer. It is far more secure. The best client based email software is Microsoft Outlook and it allows for all kinds of messaging, tasking and calendar scheduling. These are functions not supported by web-based email.

Outlook has a few problems that do need to be addressed. First, when incoming emails are scanned by antivirus programs, it often results in a lost message. Second, simple compression can result in files being lost, and third Outlook files are stored in a special database called the PST file. This can become damaged or overfilled resulting in lost data. All of these problems are minor and are easily remedied with programs designed to repair PST files and recover Outlook email. To learn more about Outlook email recovery visit Diskdoctors.net. Disk Doctors is the world’s leading data recovery expert. Read the rest of this entry »